Han

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Han may refer to:

Contents 1 China 2 Japan 3 Korea 4 Vietnam 5 Elsewhere 6 People 7 Miscellaneous 8 See also

[edit] China

• Chinese (漢), an abbreviation or adjectival modifier for things Chinese.
• Han Chinese (漢族 Hanzu, 漢人 Hanren), the dominant majority ethnic group of China and overseas Chinese.
• Chinese language (漢語 Hanyu) or Chinese characters (漢字 Hanzi) or Chinese written language (漢文 Hanwen).
• Han Dynasty (漢朝 Hanchao) (202 BC - 220 AD) of China, also known as Han China.
• Kingdom of Han (韓國 Hanguo), one of seven powerful kingdoms during the Chinese Warring States Period.
• Han Zhao (漢趙), one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Liu family.
• Cheng Han (成漢), another of the Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Li family.
• Southern Han (南漢 Nanhan), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms,
• Northern Han (北漢 Beihan), a kingdom during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
• Han River (漢水 Hanshui, 漢江 Hanjiang), a tributary of the Yangtze with its mouth at Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• a river (韓江 Hanjiang) in eastern Guangdong province, China that flows into the South China Sea.
• Type 091 Han class submarine, the first nuclear powered submarine class (SSN) deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy.
• Han (汗) or Kehan (可汗), the Chinese transliteration of Khan (title) or Khagan.
• Han, Haan, Hahn or Hann, the Romanized spelling of many Chinese family names: 韓, 韩, 邗, 罕, 寒, 憨, 漢, etc.

[edit] Japan

• Han (administrative division) (藩), a term for a feudal clan or fief in Japan.
• Han, a wooden board hanging throughout a temple complex in a Zen monastery to alert monks of mealtime when out of range of the umpan.

[edit] Korea

• Korea, an abbreviation for Hanguk (한국, 韓國), the South Korean name for Korea.
• an archaic Korean root meaning "great" or "leader"; transliterated into hanja as 韓, 幹, or 刊; see Names of Korea
• Samhan, three confederacies of chiefdoms on the southern Korean peninsula in the Proto-Three Han Kingdoms Period
• Han (surname), a Korean surname (한, 韓 or 漢) also romanized "Hahn."
• Han River (Korea) (한강, 漢江), a river passing through Seoul, South Korea
• Han (cultural), a Korean cultural concept of lament
• Korean language (한국어 Hankugeo) or Hangul (한글 Hangul)

[edit] Vietnam

• a river passing through Da Nang, Vietnam
• HAN, the International Air Transport Association code for Noi Bai International Airport serving Hanoi, Vietnam

[edit] Elsewhere

• Han (North American people), a Canadian First Nation
• Hän language, an endangered Native American language spoken by the Hän people
• Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium
• Han, Turkey
• Huns, most notably Atilla the Hun

[edit] People

Main article: Han (name)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Han unification (Chinese character glyph unification) in Unicode
• Alternative spelling of title Khan (title), notably in Turkic languages
• Han, a type of Central Asian inn, similar to caravanserai
• Han, an episode of The West Wing, named for the Korean cultural concept Han

[edit] See also

• Han River